Pragmatic Play · 2025 · tested 2026-09-12
5 Lions Megaways 2
Three lions on one way shared a single 8x multiplier during 5 Lions Megaways 2 free spins on the demo, lifting a USD 5 fish win to USD 40 instead of compounding it.
- RTP measured / declared 88.1% 96.5%
- Hit frequency 22%
- Max win · no bonus 201x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.84x
- Free spins, natural 16 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 1.6 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 88.1% against 96.5% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 21.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 625 rounds (16 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 78.3x the stake, mean 126x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.84x of their price on average, 76% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 739.6x; the longest dry run was 32 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 88.11% (approximate 95% CI 70.2–106.1) |
| Hit frequency | 22% · every 4.64 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 32 / 4.65 |
| Median hit | 1.20x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 200.8x · round 8783 |
| Free spins, natural | 16 · 1.6 bHz · every 625 spins · mean bonus round payout 126.0x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,623 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.84x · median 0.585× price (USD 117.00) · 38 of 50 below price · best 2.83x · worst 0.13x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 33.3 / 25–46 |
| Retriggered | 98% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Every group of three Level Up Coins awards three extra spins, including collections after the highest multiplier level. Forty-nine of 50 regular purchases extended; larger starting awards on natural Super entries are excluded.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 8,372.1083.72% · approximate 95% CI 64–104%
- Net
- −USD 1,627.90−8.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 12 / 5024%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 5 / 5010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~625 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 625 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 106 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 4415 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4617 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
9 rules screens from the game
A winning way needs matching symbols on consecutive reels, beginning with reel 1. Each of the 6 reels can show up to 8 symbols, giving a ceiling of 262,144 ways; the actual count changes with the reel heights. Winning symbols are removed and replacement symbols refill the reels, repeating the tumble while a win remains. A lion substitutes for ordinary symbols, and a randomly selected multiplier applies once to each winning combination containing a lion, even when that combination contains several lions.
Scatter colour determines the feature. At least 3 ordinary scatters award regular free spins; a mixed trigger containing a Super Scatter opens Super Free Spins, with 1–10 additional starting spins and a possible start at level 2. The selector offers 8 choices, including Mystery: the tested choice begins with 25 spins and wild multipliers of 2x, 3x, 5x or 8x, while the 5-spin choice uses 20x, 30x, 40x or 100x. A trigger made entirely of at least 3 Super Scatters instead starts Max Free Spins: 35 spins with a fixed 100x wild multiplier and no selection screen.
Level Up Coins fill a collection meter during free spins. Each group of 3 awards another 3 spins; the first three upgrades also remove the lowest available wild multiplier, leaving only the highest by level 4. Subsequent coin collections keep extending the feature without raising that remaining multiplier. Max Free Spins also adds 3 spins per 3 coins, but has no multiplier levels to climb.
Entry prices are 100x for regular free spins, 150x for Super or 500x for Mystery, which can select any of the three feature types. Ante changes the stake from 20 to 50 credits; the rules describe a sevenfold increase in natural feature chance, and this test left Ante off. A 96.50% theoretical RTP applies across the loaded version's modes; its rules rate volatility as medium and cap an ordinary round at 8,000x. Ordinary stakes span USD 0.20–240; the displayed USD 600 maximum includes Ante.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Multiplier
Retrigger
Extra bet
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 600 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
What the lions added, and what the extra spins costCoin extensions were frequent in the purchase series: 49 of the 50 bonuses exceeded their initial 25 spins. The median payout was USD 117, and 38 entries failed to recover the USD 200 price. The longest purchased feature, number 49, lasted 46 spins and paid USD 195.20. Regular purchases as a group lost USD 1,627.90.
Natural features were much less accessible, with 16 triggers across the 10,000-spin journal. The longest intervening stretch contained 1,663 spins without a trigger, between rounds 7381 and 9045. Round 148 delivered USD 1,479.20, the largest whole-round result, yet ordinary play still finished USD 2,377.30 down. This was a specific 25-spin selection test, with five Super triggers included in the natural series and no Max trigger.
Extra wild value accounted for most of the natural free-spin payout: USD 2,836.50 out of USD 3,863.10, or 73.43%. Those multipliers are shared across qualifying combinations rather than multiplied together for every lion. The fish combination in round 593 contained three lions on one way; its USD 5 unmultiplied award became USD 40 under a single 8x multiplier.
- Wild multipliers contributed USD 2,836.50 beyond the underlying natural free-spin symbol awards.
- A 200.8x return came from ordinary play, without a free-spin trigger.
- Regular purchases produced 138 verified three-spin extensions across the 50 entries.
- Bonus spacing reached 1,663 ordinary spins without a fresh trigger.
- An extra-long purchase still missed its price: 46 spins paid USD 195.20 for USD 200.
- Thirty-eight purchases fell short of their cost despite 49 features receiving extensions.
- Only the 25-spin option was sampled; the 7 other choices have no measured comparison here.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 22%rounds that paid
- 740xbiggest round
- 1 / 625natural bonus rate
- 0.84xmean of 50 buys
- 32longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-12 measured return88.11%-8.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 70.2–106.1%
- rounds that paid
- 22%
- biggest round
- 740x · round 148
- longest dry streak
- 32
- natural bonuses
- 16 · one per 625 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.84x · median 0.585x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,623
- deepest drawdown
- 2,003x
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x); mode: 25-spin selection (initial wild multipliers 2x, 3x, 5x and 8x), Super starting awards included, regular 100x purchases only on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-12.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logWould you buy the regular bonus after this test?
No. Lion bonuses bought at the regular 100x price returned less than they cost in 38 of 50 tests. At a USD 2 stake, each entry cost USD 200; the median payout was USD 117 and the combined return was 83.72%. These purchases all used the 25-spin option, with no purchase-series results for Super or Mystery.
Can three lions multiply a win three times?
No. Several lions can belong to a single winning way, but the chosen multiplier applies once to that combination. In round 593 of the 5 Lions Megaways 2 test, three lions helped form a fish combination worth USD 5 before multiplication. One 8x factor produced USD 40; the complete round, including its trigger, paid USD 236.10.
How rare were free spins in the demo test?
Ante was off throughout the 10,000-spin test, which produced 16 natural features: 11 regular bonuses and 5 Super bonuses. That is one trigger per 625 spins across this 5 Lions Megaways 2 journal. The longest internal gap was 1,663 non-triggering spins, so 625 describes the series average rather than a countdown to a bonus.
Can both RTP figures be right: 88.11% and 96.50%?
Yes. The two percentages describe different things: 96.50% is the loaded game version's theoretical RTP, while 88.11% is the return actually logged on USD 20,000 of ordinary stakes. Those spins paid USD 17,622.70. The approximate 95% interval for this sample was 70.16–106.07%, which includes the declared value; the lower observed result alone does not establish a fault in the game.
Do Level Up Coins stop helping at the top level?
No. Coins still award 3 additional spins for each group of 3 after level 4; only the removal of lower wild multipliers stops. The fifty regular purchases in this test produced 138 extensions and 112 multiplier-level advances. Purchase 49 reached 46 spins but returned USD 195.20 against a USD 200 entry.
Which free-spin choice was used for these results?
Every regular or Super bonus selected the 25-spin choice, whose initial wild multipliers are 2x, 3x, 5x and 8x. Super entries add their own starting award; 5 occurred naturally in the 10,000-spin series. The other 7 choices were not tested as separate samples, and no Max Free Spins trigger occurred.
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